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On a Friday evening in most Johannesburg homes, the kitchen fills up first. Someone opens a bottle of wine at the island, the children come in looking for something to eat, and someone else gets the braai going on the patio a few steps away. No other room in the house does as much. A kitchen copes with heat, water, spills, crowds and years of school lunches, all in full view of your guests. After thirty years of designing homes, we have a clear view of what makes a kitchen wo

Most first meetings start the same way. The client opens a folder of saved images on their phone, or a Pinterest board containing forty kitchens in it and nearly all of them white, then apologises for not really knowing what they want. They almost always know more than they think. The difficulty is that saved images describe a look, and a designer needs a great deal more than a look before it can be made to work in one particular house, in this climate, for the people who liv

There is a moment in every house that nobody designs for. You come in off the driveway with keys in one hand and the shopping in the other, the gate still rolling shut behind you, and for a few seconds you are standing in the entrance hall. Most people walk straight through it, and it is still the part of the house that tells a visitor what the rest of it will be. That short walk is why entrances deserve more attention than they get. Most luxury hallway interior design ideas